Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Rick Pitino

We just wanted to lock down defensively. We made great defensive plays down the stretch. Inexperienced teams find a way to lose, tonight we found a way to win.

Dave Wannstedt

We signed, arguably, as good an offensive and defensive player as there was in New York.

Nick Fruendt

We turned up the defensive intensity. This was our type of game, where we just go out there and play with fire and passion and give it everything we've got.

Bryant Dillon

We started working the ball, not getting in a rush, pinning them on defense, making them work on the defensive end. We got what we wanted. We got a lot of open shots and inside play.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Steve Barrish

You have to understand, it's a total effort from everyone to take a school to the next level.

Steve Francis

Tonight we were just able to finish things off late in the game. They made their run and I thought we responded well. Malik Rose did a great job stepping up and hitting big shots. I thought it was a total team effort that helped us win the game.

Jake Winslow

We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good marks by our other place finishers.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

John Brady

Defensively, we've been quite good throughout the tournament, but really we've been quite good defensively this whole year.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

David Greenberg

They can be done in a short period of time,

Pat Robertson

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

Richard Donnell

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Russ Halverson

We scared them. I don't think anybody's played them like that in league, especially in that first half. I think if we had any kind of depth, it's a different second half.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Howard Stern

He was very supportive. I was so pleased that he had called.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

David Mitchell

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

John Marks

We really turned it around in the second period. I could see things were starting to turn our way.

P. James

We really put it together in the second half.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Brian Cashman

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

James Wolcott

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